Prison entrant

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:

Object Class

METeOR identifier:

348021

Registration status:

Health, Standard 25/08/2011

Definition:

An adult (aged at least 18 years) who is entering prison, and whose confinement is the responsibility of a corrective services agency. Juvenile offenders, persons in psychiatric custody, police cell detainees, those in periodic detention, asylum seekers or Australians held in overseas prisons are not included.